Tag: nokia
New Nokia Faces Competition & Challenges from Software Megatrend – Part 1
Introduction: On December 2nd, Nokia shareholders overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent . The only remaining full service telecom equipment company in either North America or Europe is being sold to Nokia in a 15.6 billion Euro (€) deal which could make the “new Nokia” a market leader in network equipment and cloud services for…
Threat of Disaggregated Network Equipment – Part 3
Introduction: Disaggregation of IT equipment started with Facebook driving the Open Compute Project (OCP) to open up the design of compute servers. It then extended to bare metal switches and white boxes (such as those from Pica8), which are a huge threat to traditional switch/router equipment vendors. The threat is now extended to transport/transmission equipment…
Eye Catchers at CES 2012
[Note: this was originally published on 1/9/2012, updated on 1/25/2012 and 2/4/2012]. Glasses free 3D on an iPad or iPhone for only $30. Globalwave introduced sheets that turn screens from iPhone size to 23 inch that allow glasses-free 3D viewing. Their “free” app can be found at http://www.pic-3d.jp Photos from CES 2012 of products,…
NSN-Alvarion OEM Agreement Has Huge Strategic Implications
Introduction: According to a press release issued today on Alvarion’s web site, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will resell Alvarion’s latest mobile WiMAX/ IEEE 802.16e gear to its current and prospective WiMAX customers. The Alvarion equipment to be resold includes the BreezeMAX Base Stations, ASN Gateways and 4Motion Element Management System. NSN will provide deployment, management and maintenance services for…
3G-HSPA, Mobile Linux and Open Source are the Big Winners in Intel-Nokia Technology Partnership
Intel referred to it as "this year’s most significant collaboration in our respective industries." The Intel-Nokia strategic partnership will "align and shape the next generation of mobile computing." But it was very difficult to extract any tangible take always from the press conference announcing the partnership. That’s because no specific products were identified and no time frames were given…
New apps and smart phones to drive demand for 4G mobile networks
We now believe that smart phones and "all-in-one" gadgets will drive the need for more bandwidth and QOS and accelerate mobile network movement to 3.5G (EVDO, HSPA, mobile WiMAX, etc) and 4G (LTE and Advanced WiMAX- IEEE 802.16m). UK research firm Mobile Squared reports that Apple to hit 1 billion app downloads on April 23rd! Please see:…
